• the Civics and Citizenship program, which includes an annual national forum on civics and citizenship education for teachers, principals, pre-service educators, State and Territory officials, and parents,
  
  
• the introduction of a National Framework for Values Education in Australian Schools which emphasises values such as respect, responsibility and understanding, tolerance and inclusion, which help students appreciate their local, national, regional and global
  
  
• responsibilities and help them to understand human rights. States and Territories have also undertaken a range of initiatives to promote human rights education in schools, for example:

NSW has incorporated cross-curriculum content on the areas of Difference and Diversity, Gender, Multiculturalism, Civics and Citizenship and Indigenous issues in all new syllabuses of the Years 7-10 curriculum; incorporated human rights issues in a compulsory test in Australian History, Geography, and Civics and Citizenship set for Year 10 School Certificate candidates; and included the study of human rights in the syllabuses for Legal Studies, Aboriginal Studies and Modern History.
NSW Human Rights Education Committee (University of Sydney)
NSW Human Rights Education Committee | Lesson Plans

Victoria has introduced the Good Ideas for Human Rights Education project, which documents and disseminates good practice in human rights education across the school sectors in Victoria, and established a Languages & Multicultural Education Resource Centre which provides professional development programs on anti-racism education, the needs of refugees and other groups of at risk students, and culturally inclusive curriculum.
Victorian Human Rights Education Committee | Lesson Plans

the ACT has implemented a trial scheme with Amnesty International to introduce Human Rights Education programs into high schools and primary schools, and introduced the School Excellence Initiative, which reviews ACT government schools on a three-yearly basis against criteria which include student involvement in active citizenship and a curriculum the promotes intercultural understanding and ethnic and gender diversity.

The Tasmanian Centre for Global Learning is a project aimed at promoting an understaginf of the Universal Declaration of HUman Rights.
Tasmanian Centre for Global Learning | A Citizen of Humanity

ADELAIDE HIGH SCHOOL
Defending Human Rights, Promoting Multiculturalism & Intercultural Understanding
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